Various ambitious new film projects have been hitting the ground running at Cannes this year, and yet another is about to hit the docket. Per a report from Deadline, Vertical has announced their new action thriller film called Kalahari, which we know now will star Ryan Phillippe, Emile Hirsch, and Mena Suvari. Production has officially wrapped on the project, and the film is now being shopped at the international festival by Voltage Pictures.
Kalahari is the latest feature from Vertical, set as an action thriller being directed and written by Mukunda Michael Dewil. Producers on the project include Robert Ogden Barnum of The Barnum Picture Company, Christian Ackerman, and Lucas Jarach of Green Light Pictures. Executive producers are Vertical’s Peter Jarowey, Luke Daniels, Kristin Harris, Rich Goldberg, Andrew Davies Gans, and Voltage’s Nicolas Chartier and Johathan Deckter. Starring in the film are Ryan Phillippe (The Locksmith) and Dylan Flashner (The Card Counter), who both previously worked with Dewil on his previous thriller feature Collide (2022). Alongside them are Emile Hirsch who also starred in Dewil’s The Immaculate Room (2022), Mena Suvari (American Horror Story), Tristan Thompson (The Tutor), Jeremy Tardy (Dear White People), and Michaela Sasner (Aftermath).
Claws, Teeth, and Bullets Clash in the Kalahari
The premise of the film revolves around a young couple, played by Phillippe and Suvari, who are forced to abandon their Christian missionary post out in the Kalahari Desert of Southern Africa after an invading extremist militant group threatens their lives. Taking refuge aboard a dilapidated plane with a crooked smuggler, before they can escape the plane loses power and crash-lands in the middle of a vast animal preserve. Injured and surrounded in every direction by some of Africa’s deadliest predators including lions, leopards, and hyenas, and with the extremists also tracking them down, the three of them must fight for survival at all costs in this unique struggle of man versus beast.
Producer Ogden Barnum remarked of the surreal experience making the film:
“Kalahari has been a great experience. Mukunda created a visual, and visceral, experience for moviegoers. And with our many collaborations, I know the project is in great hands with Vertical and Voltage taking it on.”
Peter Jarowey of Vertical also praised the work of the entire crew and the actors to bring to life one of the company’s biggest films yet.
With the launch of Vertical’s production division last year, we are thrilled to have Kalahari be one of our first fully financed films from that initiative. The cast really delivered terrific performances, and at times, under some grueling conditions. We have worked with Rob Barnum on numerous, successful, projects in the past and glad that we are partnered on this one as well,”
While production has finished, there is no preliminary release date for the film just yet. As soon as it finds its new home after the Cannes shopping circuit, more details are sure to follow.
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